EasyOCR alternatives
Models that cover what EasyOCR does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Small open-source OCR model from Z.ai with layout regions. MIT licensed.
Baidu's classic open-source text detection and recognition pipeline. Light enough to run on CPU.
PaddleOCR models packaged for ONNX Runtime and other engines. Easy to deploy without Paddle.
Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.
Google Cloud OCR with layout parsing and specialised processors.
Dashed tags are things EasyOCR does not support. Model IDs: paddle/paddleocr-vl, zai/glm-ocr, paddle/paddleocr, rapidai/rapidocr, azure/document-intelligence, google/document-ai.